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<p n="600">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50920_occ192">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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acting in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50920_geo571">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in General Sessions of the peace for the said County<lb></lb>
assembled.</p>
<p n="601">The Humble Petition and Appeal<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50920_n601-1">James Mc. Intosh</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n601-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50920_occ193">Esquire</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50920_n601-2">William Forsyth</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n601-2" type="given" value="William"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n601-2" type="surname" value="Forsyth"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n601-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50920_occ194">Esquire</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="602"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by a certain rate or Assessment made<lb></lb>
in the Vestry Room of the parish Church of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50920_geo572">Kensington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50920_geo573">County of Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_geo573" type="placeName" value="County of Middlesex"></interp>
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the Ninth twenty sixth and<lb></lb>
thirtieth Days of July in the Year of our Lord one<lb></lb>
thousand seven hundred and ninety five in pursuance of<lb></lb>
an Act of parliament passed in the seventeenth Year of<lb></lb>
the Reign of His present Majesty intituled "An Act<lb></lb>
"for the better relief and employment of the poor of the<lb></lb>
"parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50920_geo574">Saint Mary Abbotts</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50920_geo575">Kensington</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
"of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50920_geo576">Middlesex</rs>
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and for other purposes therein mentioned."<lb></lb>
by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor and<lb></lb>
Parishioners then in Vestry assembled for raising the<lb></lb>
sum of Eight hundred pounds or thereabouts for the Relief<lb></lb>
of the poor and other the purposes of the said Act for<lb></lb>
one quarter from Lady Day to Midsummer Day there<lb></lb>
last at Nine pence in the pound by an equal pound Rate<lb></lb>
according to the yearly Rent or yearly value of the respective<lb></lb>
Lands Tenements Hereditaments and premises in respect<lb></lb>
whereof the same was so made and assessed your petitioners<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50920_n602-1">James Mc. Intosh</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n602-1" type="surname" value="McIntosh"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n602-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50920_n602-2">William Forsyth</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n602-2" type="surname" value="Forsyth"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50920_n602-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
(& Co..<lb></lb>
meaning thereby some other person or persons not named in<lb></lb>
the said Rate) were Rated and assessed at the sum of<lb></lb>
fifteen shillings for a Chapel.</p>
<p n="603">That your petitioners not being proprietors or Occupiers<lb></lb>
of the said Chapel did make on objection to such Rate or</p>
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